Correct, he's not friends with them because they're not friends with him. Fact is, if you look into it you'll find out he's something of a rather lonely man, not really having any actual real friends. Throughout his life. Sure he has people he associates with, even calls friends - from Jeffrey Epstein to all the people on Celebrity Apprentice - but they're not exactly real friends. It's just words.
He's nothing more than a sycopahnt that real dictators use. Putin at Helsinki, Kim at the DMZ, the 3:00 a.m. phone call with Erdogan, backing out of the Iran nuclear deal and wanting to stop war with them simply because Netanyahu told him to, signing over Afghanistan to the Taliban, that Hungarian guy that nobody knows or cares about because he has no effect on anything except Hungary itself... There was no negotiation, not even on their parts. All they had to do is tell them what a swell guy he is and he's eager to please. Mind you, all these concessions and goodies he gave them were for nothing in return. Absolutely nothing in return.
He's been the focus of 4095 lawsuits. Sometimes criminality is not a banana.
In his third week in office, Trump issued an executive order blocking trans from serving in the military.
That his base is expecting him to do more isn't exactly without foundation.